The New Deal to End Youth Homelessness is a federal policy proposal that offers a roadmap to transform how young people, particularly Black, Brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQ young people, are supported in our society.

The most comprehensive proposal of its kind for youth and young adult homelessness, the New Deal aligns the nation’s leading funders, advocacy organizations, and service providers around a transformative vision grounded in equity and defined by young people.

Five Pillars of the New Deal

Ending youth and young adult homelessness will require transformation and re-orientation toward justice in the nation’s major systems serving young people—systems currently rooted in structural racism. Click on the housing justice pillar below to learn more. The remaining pillars will have a staggered release as they are collaboratively built with youth and young adults and other AWHA partners during the first half of 2021. You can sign up for updates through our newsletter below.

A Roadmap Toward Transformation

The New Deal is a national roadmap that radically reimagines the systems outlined in the five pillars. It builds on hard fought efforts already underway and reorients them around justice for youth and young adults. Each pillar will outline three types of efforts, which can occur simultaneously in many cases:

The Roadmap toward Transformation is adapted from Steve Williams’ Demand Everything: Lessons of the Transformative Organizing Model